Page 11 - ES Summer 2 Newsletter 2022

Air Quality at Ty Gwyn Education Centre,

Rhondda Cynon Taf

Traffic has a hugely negative impact on air quality. This can be a problem around
school grounds as cars and buses congregate at the start and end of each day. This

is also hugely affected by the number of
parked cars that are idling.

Checking Air Quality

There are different ways to check the
air quality around your school. One way

is using natural biological indicators We’re putting our foot down on roadside litter
(bioindicators).
Have you spotted our roadside litter Keep your eyes and ears peeled this
We asked Riley Evans, a Year 10

student at Ty Gwyn Education Centre in campaign adverts out on your travels? summer as advertising will step up a
From billboards to petrol pumps, we’ve
gear during busy weekends and bank
Rhondda Cynon Taf, to explain how they launched our new ‘Drive your litter
used nature’s own air quality indicators, holidays to target as many drivers as
lichens, to check out the air quality near home’ campaign across Wales. possible.
their school. We’re calling on drivers to keep their We’re also partnering with Adventure
conscience and our roadsides clear as Cinema to play our campaign advert on

part of a new national roadside litter their big screens at outdoor cinemas
“We checked the trees in Aberdare park
for lichen and looked at roadside trees. campaign. Research shows that 78% across Wales!

We noticed it was not growing on the of vehicle litterers feel guilty after The nationwide campaign is being
trees near the roadside. All the trees littering. Our new campaign encourages run as part of Caru Cymru (a Welsh
drivers to have a guilt free journey
near the roadside had no lichen, but phrase meaning ‘Love Wales’) – an
lichen was growing on the park side of with no regrets and to ‘Drive your litter inclusive movement led by Keep Wales
the trees.” home’. Tidy and local authorities to inspire
As part of the campaign, outdoor people to take action and care for the

advertising is appearing across roadside environment.
Following this analysis, students litter hotspots in Wales such as roadside
explored ways they could reduce air billboards, back of buses and petrol Find out more about our

pollution. Ideas ranged from walking A good example of a survey schools pump adverts. This also includes radio roadside litter campaign on
instead of using a car, reducing how can conduct looking at air quality using and digital audio advertising to target

much they use aerosol deodorants, bioindicators is the OPAL air survey drivers listening to their favourite our website.
controlling traffic better, and Riley’s which is available in English and Welsh. channels.
own innovative idea of researching the

possibility of using magnetic power in
the future!